mikert89

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by mikert89 2mo ago
im not buying that github is a unique engineering problem, harder than the rest of hyperscalars.
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by mikert89 2mo ago
AWS saw this growth every year for two decades, hyper growth tech sees it all the time
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by mikert89 2mo ago
cloud providers and hyper growth tech deal with these growth rates all the time
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by mikert89 2mo ago
this is common at AWS/cloud providers
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by mikert89 2mo ago
alot of distributed systems in big companies grow at this rate, its not exponential, its mundane
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by mikert89 2mo ago
The biggest for me is diet by far, I cook every meal. If I have a stretch of going into the office, I end up eating slop, which kills my energy levels
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by mikert89 2mo ago
Its not just the time, its the energy expended.
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by mikert89 2mo ago
Would love to see this calculated in high cost of living areas (NY, CA), pretty sure some people have seen 20% wage declines since covid (in terms of how far your income goes)
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by mikert89 2mo ago
^
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by mikert89 2mo ago
outsourced cost center
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by mikert89 2mo ago
outsourced cost center
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by mikert89 2mo ago
the whole software lifecycle is an outsourced cost center
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by mikert89 2mo ago
350$
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by mikert89 2mo ago
Where do you find clients?
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by mikert89 2mo ago
it certainly has, SWE wages have dropped and continue to do so
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by mikert89 2mo ago
benchamaxxing is easy, fable still seems organically more intelligent
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by mikert89 2mo ago
This is cope, ai coding agents will follow the path of self driving cars. They will be watched with extreme caution, but will slowly but surely expand outwards. Eventually manually writing code will be considered a dangerous/bug introd
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by mikert89 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
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by mikert89 2mo ago
You aren’t getting it. They can pay their engineers half what they used to, you don’t need the same level of skill to build photoshop. Yes, you need a bunch of engineers, but they will be driving coding agents, not writing code by hand. The
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by mikert89 2mo ago
the future is already here, its just not evenly distributed
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by mikert89 2mo ago
i think this is farther off, much sooner is just the subjugation of technical workers to be low skill drivers of LLMs
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by mikert89 2mo ago
no programming is verifiable, and the major LLM companies are focused on it. its the first domino to fall by probably 5+ years
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by mikert89 2mo ago
hahaha i was laughing too, of all companies for someone to defend
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by mikert89 2mo ago
ive worked at multiple FAANG, almost always been the only american on a team of 10. theres some huge push by corporations to deny it to justify shipping in more foreign labor.
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by mikert89 2mo ago
amazon is crammed full of indians, its one of the worst offenders. i spent 5 years at the company also nothing impressive about a senior SDE there, maybe 10 years ago it was impressive, best talent has either moved on or is L7+
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by mikert89 2mo ago
have you been inside a big tech company? there arent many american fresh grads working there, its mostly foreign
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by mikert89 2mo ago
have you been inside any big tech company? lots of orgs are > 80% foreign.
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by mikert89 2mo ago
right but we have never seen a tool like this
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by mikert89 2mo ago
ofcourse not, but they can pay someone 80k a year to work on the backlog, whereas maybe they used to pay 175k. its not about work going down, its the skill set needed to complete the work is lower than ever, and they need less people than e
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by mikert89 2mo ago
I think the field is basically over as a long term career unless you are truly exceptional. It will become very easy to build most software, and the upper end will be filled with the top people in the country/from abroad. Wages are cer

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